After many legal delays and hurdles, we are finally allowed to collect signatures to put Campaign Finance Reform on the ballot for 2024!
Don't sit back, join the fun - meet some of the neat and interesting folk helping boot BIG Money OUT of elections.
SIGN-UP FOR ONE OF THE VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES at the bottom of this page
We need petitioners, but also volunteers to help organize the drive and validate signatures
Online Petitioner Training : Thursdays, 7pm. - On Hold for now
For confirmation of the training or to get more information, please email [email protected]
Upcoming : link to a petitioning calendar of events
Print the forms and instructions below, and the explanation flyer with QR code on the right
Petition Drives for the 2024 ballot:
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IP9 and IP8 - Implements Campaign Finance Reform - Honest-Elections.org
Meaningful Campaign Finance Reform rests on a three-legged stool1) Disclosure of large donors in Independent Expenditures (paid political ads)
2) Meaningful limits of funds received and disbursed for political campaigns - many technicalities in this
3) Public Matching Funds for elections
Measure 107 passed with 82% voter approval in 2022; amending the Oregon Constitution to allow for campaign finance limits. The legislature did not do anything and later the Secretary of State, a Democrat supported by Labor, threw out the petition drive to implement campaign finance reform in 2022. -
IP14 - Taxes the largest corporations and rebate every Oregonian - Oregonrebate.org
This exciting initiative would bring large amounts of funding to rural communities, by putting the money in people's hands. Corporations are not paying their share; so we are going to demand a rebate from Oregon sales of the largest corporations be brought back to the state, to support infrastructure and vibrant local economies. Link to their site to help collect signatures for this and Campaign Finance Reform.
- We are partnering with www.Peoplenotpoliticiansoregon.org - IP14 - link here for great instructions on how to fill a petition form
- We are also partnering with www.oregonrebate.org - IP17 - Link here for great training material for petitioners (or come to a training).
Great places to petition include:
- 90 minutes prior to concerts and sports events (high traffic, go Pickles! go Thorns! Go Blazers!)
- The beach and parks
- In Portland: Pedalpalooza and park events all summer; we will be tabling at many of the street fairs
- In Ashland: Oregon Shakespeare Festival
- DMV, jury duty and similar lines where people are waiting
For those who don't like to interact with the public: in Portland we need a crew of 5-10 volunteers to verify signatures
We need many talents - especially social media expertise...
So far we have collected approximately 120,000 signatures